Chuvash – ISO 9 transliteration system
Chuvash virtual keyboard
The Chuvash virtual keyboard allows you to enter characters with a click of your mouse. There’s no need to change your keyboard layout anymore. The transliteration of each supported character is displayed on the right side of the character. You can then directly transliterate your text from one script to the other according to the selected transliteration system.
Language overview
Chuvash (Чӑвашла, transliterated as Căvašla or Çovaşla) belongs to the Turkic language family, and more precisely to the Oghur branch, of which it is the last living language. It is spoken in the Chuvash Republic, or Chuvashia, in the Russian Federation, where it is co-oficial with Russian, by the Chuvash people, and counts about 1 million speakers. Chuvash can be written in Latin alphabet or in Cyrillic alphabet.
Transliteration system: ISO 9
The international standard ISO 9 establishes a system for the transliteration into Latin characters of Cyrillic characters constituting the alphabets of many Slavic and some non-Slavic languages. This system is univocal, as one character is represented by one equivalent character (by the use of diacritics), which represents the original spelling and allows for reverse transliteration (or retroconversion). The first versions of the standard were based on the scholarly system, but the latest version, ISO:1995, emphasizes the unambiguity of the transliteration instead of the phonemic representation.
Other transliteration systems for Chuvash
The other currently supported transliteration systems for Chuvash are: ALA-LC, BGN/PCGN, and CăvashLat.
Chuvash links
Other supported languages
The other supported languages are: Abkhaz, Adyghe, Altai, Armenian (eastern, classical), Armenian (western), Azerbaijani (Azeri), Bashkir, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Carrier, Cherokee, Erzya, Georgian, Greek, Ingush, Inuktitut, Japanese, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Moldovan, Old Church Slavonic, Ossetian, Russian, Serbian, Tamazight, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Vai, and Yakut.